The only surprise we have is that the year's best-selling photobook (Selfish by Kim Kardashian maybe, or Humans of New York) are not in there. Are we too picky in the photobook ghetto? Should we invite Kim to Photobook Bristol? I think we should! Humans of New York? No!

Kim Kardashian: We'll keep you posted on how she responds to our Photobook Bristol Invite

The range of books on offer in the Feustel meta-list does indicate that rather than everybody selecting the same books, there are lots of books on offer from different genres, perspectives and publishing platforms.

image above from Moises by Mariela Sancari

From a purely selfish point of view it's good to see that Moises by Mariela Sancari is the top choice for 2015 getting 14 selections. Moises was launched at Bristol Photobook 2015. Coming on the back of the launch of 2014's top book, Hidden Islam, in 2014 (we like to see it that way anyway), it looks like Photobook Bristol is on a roll!

We all know that lists are nonsense but it is also good to see that Laura El Tantawy (right up there with 9 votes ), Ivars Gravlejs (5 votes) and Dragana Jurisic ( 3 votes) are in there and will be speaking at Photobook Bristol 2016 about their books In the Shadow of the Pyramids, Early Works and Yu..

Cover of Ama Lur by Jon Casanave (published by Dalpine)

And a couple more confirmed speakers have just been added. We're very excited that Sonia Berger of Dalpine Books will be talking about publishing, marketing and selling books as part of a session on the industry side of the book market.